Tag: Tardigrades

There is now a second Tardigrade genome described in a manuscript (Koutsovoulos et al 2015), only days after the first (Boothby et al 2015– not OA). Koutsovoulos et al however strongly suggests that the widely publicised rampant horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is problematic. This alternate genome comes from Mark Blaxter’s group in Edinburgh, and has in fact…